How is your marketing working for you? Did it help you increase visibility, generate more leads or find new lucrative clients? Even if you feel your marketing was successful, you should conduct a simple marketing review every 90 days. Find out why.
If you want your marketing to be effective, you need to treat marketing as a process – a series of actions to achieve your particular marketing goal. But unless you create a marketing system, your marketing process could be inefficient and inconsistent, producing results that are less than you had hoped.
Today’s climate has every business looking at ways to change the way they market their business. This is especially true for home services businesses. Homeowners need quality landscapers, electricians, plumbers, HVAC services and remodelers. When they need them, they will go online to find one.
Review your website to ensure it is an effective hub of all of your marketing efforts. Use this website review checklist to walk through the important areas of your website, including design, content, SEO, security, device support and performance.
Every small business wants to have their business rank on the first page of the search engine results. It’s pretty common knowledge that being ranked on page one increases traffic to your website and, ultimately having new customers find you. But that doesn’t happen without implementing SEO best practices.
Developing a strong brand identity for your business is an extremely important factor in its success. Effective branding can help build your reputation, make you stand out from your competition and project your values to attract your ideal client.
If you have created your content marketing strategy, you should know who you are targeting, with what content, on which channel and the timing of how often and when. Now you need to generate a regular stream of quality and relevant information across all of your content channels
As of 2020, there are 1.69 billion users on Facebook, and around 1.3 billion users on Facebook Messenger. Being able to tap into that market can turn your small business from an obscure donkey to a powerful unicorn. If you’re looking to up your game this year, here are seven Facebook marketing trends entrepreneurs should be aware of. – Guest post by Larry Kim, MobileMonkey
Writing content is hard and a lot of work. Some people make it look easy, but not all of us are naturally talented writers. If we were, we’d be writing the next bestseller. But with all the benefits of blogging, we need to overcome the objections and add this task to our marketing activities.
We are an impatient society. We want immediate response to our requests. We get frustrated when we have to wait for anything, especially for websites to load. If your website speed does not meet the patience criteria of your visitors, they will hit the back button, sending a signal to Google that your website is not a quality user experience. That behavior over time could affect your search engine ranking.
When I ask the question “Will You Find Your Next Client — or Will They Find You?”, it is a direct challenge to business owners to define an inbound marketing strategy that will encourage those who are ready to buy to contact you.
Selecting the best target market for your business is the most important but difficult part of the marketing plan. Business owners will make many excuses when asked why they have not chosen a target because they believe that targeting limits their opportunities.
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